Weekend of Oct 1rst, 2011

As Fall continues to settle into Maryland, work continues on our houses, and indeed on all the houses within Sandtown's focus block on N Gilmor St in Baltimore. We had Bill Marsh and his team come for a Team Build on Friday Sept. 30th and had a normal volunteer day on October 1rst. Our normal volunteer days are suffering a bit attendance-wise, perhaps folk are too busy preparing for winter, or perhaps our new volunteer tool that NGC has us using isn't as great as we had hoped for, but our team of Kurt, Andrew, and I are trying our best to refresh the volunteer pool, so if you are interested in the least, please come out. Northrop and Sandtown would love to have you. As always, no experience is necessary, as we teach as we go.

Anyways, back to the houses. 1632 received a coat of blue board on the inside of the first floor walls, which is dense insulation to help keep the house cooler in summer and warmer in the winter. Framing was then placed over the blue board.
Here the Friday team works on installing the blue board:

Here the Friday team works on finishing touches to the right wall framing before putting it in place:

The view of 1632 at the end of Friday:



For 1630 N Gilmor, that house did not yet have its subfloor installed, and the teams from Friday and Saturday worked to finish the subfloor. The same process applied to 1632 will now be applied to 1630 to insulate the house and to get ready to install joists for the second floor.

Here the team finishes the subfloor on the first floor by trimming back overhang over the stairway.


Many thanks to Bill Marsh and his team as well as our regular Saturday volunteers.